Dennis Murphy Biography
Dennis Murphy is an American television journalist who regularly appears on NBC News, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, The Today Show, and NBC News at Sunrise.
Age
Dennis Murphy was born on August 27, 1932 in Salinas, California, USA. He is 91 years old as of August 2023.
Education
Murphy graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School in Maryland in 1965 and from Williams College in Massachusetts in 1969.
Wife- Spouse
Dennis has been married to his wife Marilyn Sibyl Holm since 1977), they live in Florida.
Career
Murphy has covered stories from more than 50 countries for NBC News. A regular contributor to NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw and Today, his work has given him a front row seat to some of the biggest stories of the past two decades, from war in the Persian Gulf and Central America to the collapse of the Middle East. United States of America. The Soviet Union and the Berlin Wall, and more recently the war on terror in Afghanistan. Before joining NBC News, Murphy was a reporter for NBC affiliate KING-TV in Seattle, Washington. He began his career as a frontline reporter at WCBS-TV in New York and spent several years as director of editorial, production and reporting at KHOU-TV in Houston, Texas.
Murphy began his career in 1982 as an NBC News correspondent in the Burbank bureau. The following year he was sent to Miami, where he traveled throughout South and Central America. In the 1980s, the invasion of Grenada, wars in Nicaragua and El Salvador, deadly fires in Colombia and drug lords were part of the focus. In 1988, he covered the Democratic presidential primaries and served as a roving correspondent for NBC’s Bush campaign. Murphy has been a reporter for NBC Dateline since May 1994. In 2000 Edward R.
He won the Murrow Award for covering Hurricane Floyd and the Bugle Award for live coverage of the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1999, he won an Emmy, Bugle Award, Harry Chapin Media Award and National Assist Award for his work “Harvest Children,” about American children working on farms. He also received the Bugle Award for the film “A Good Man,” which tells the story of a group of Marines fighting in Vietnam. Murphy also won the National Association of Black Journalists International Reporting Award. He won two Emmy Awards in 1996 for his work on “Dateline” and also earned an American Bar Association Citation for his long-running “Dateline” public opinion test.
Net Worth
Dennis has an estimated net worth of 1 million dollars.